Le banquet de la Renaissance : images et usages Diane H. Bodard, Valérie Boudier Le banquet vient de l’italien banchetto, employé à partir de la seconde moitié du XIVe siécle comme un synonyme du plus ancien convito – repas splendide et copieux – qui dérive du latin convivium. Or, par son étymologie, le nouveau mot opère un glissement…
Stefano Lorenzetti
«At every gesture from the lord»: Music at banquets, a cornucopia of the senses Stefano Lorenzetti La fusione sinestetica, che disegna la figura dell’abbondanza, proiettata in un continuum di iperbole rappresentativa, sintagma dell’indicibilità, può essere rivelata analizzando il contributo che la musica porge alla realizzazione di quella seduzione sensoriale globale che costituisce la peculiarità comunicativo-rappresentativa…
Sandrine Krikorian
Images du banquet royal sous lesValois Sandrine Krikorian Il saggio intende presentare l’iconografa dei banchetti durante la dinastia dei Valois, dalla fne del Trecento agli ultimi decenni del Cinquecento. Banchetti di consacrazione ed incoronazione, banchetti in onore di sovrani stranieri, banchetti in occasione delle celebrazioni dell’Ordine dello Spirito Santo : la tavola del sovrano mette…
Diane H. Bodart
Le banquet des Habsbourg, ou lapolitique à table Diane H. Bodart An infuential occasion of community life, the banquet consolidates the cohesion of the social group. Its representation is thus not by accident at the origins of group portraiture in European modern painting, mainly but not only in the Netherlands. This essay analyses the correlation…
Fanny Kieffer
La confserie des Ofces : art, scienceset magnifcence à la cour des Médicis Fanny Kieffer Il laboratorio di confetteria dei Medici esemplifica perfettamente il funzionamento della Galleria degli Uffizi, istituita nel 1588 per volere del granduca Ferdinando I de Medici (1587-1609). Grazie a inediti documenti d’archivio, abbiamo potuto dimostrare che il confettiere collabora attivamente non…
Lisa Boutin Vitela
Dining in the Gonzaga SuburbanPalaces : The Use and Reception ofIstoriato Maiolica Lisa Boutin Vitela This article explores connections between istoriato (narrative-painted) maiolica dishes created for marchesa Isabella d’Este and her son duke Federico II Gonzaga and dining rituals at their suburban palaces. Due to its low intrinsic value, maiolica was especially well-suited for use…
Philippe Canguilhem
I musici convivi di Roma (1530-1540)e la dimensione sonora del banchettonel Rinascimento Philippe Canguilhem La Rome des années 1530-1540 voit fleurir une vie culturelle et artistique d’une rare richesse, où s’épanouissent au sein des famiglie de cardinaux différentes académies littéraires, dont les plus célèbres ont pour nom les Vignaiuoli, la Virtù ou encore le Sdegno….
Claudia Goldstein
«A Fool Goes to a Wedding»: TheSocial, Visual, and PerformativeFunctions of the Wedding Banquet inEarly Modern Antwerp Claudia Goldstein This essay explores interactions among objects, texts, and audiences brought together by the temporal moment of the wedding banquet and the space of the early modern dining room in Antwerp. I pay special attention to contemporary…
Valérie Boudier
La parabole du mauvais riche et dupauvre Lazare selon les Bassano :l’image d’un banquet, entreségrégation et mixité Valérie Boudier Through the study of Bassano’s Parable of Lazarus and the rich man, we will analyse the gap between the biblical narrative and the artist’s works. The text does not evoke gender or food behavior issues, whereas…
Memory Holloway
Banquets at the Portuguese Courtin the 16th and 17th centuries: Space,Place and Tradition Memory Holloway The representation of meals and banquets in Portuguese painting from the Renaissance to the early modern period is almost exclusively linked to religious imagery that features meals as rites associated with the Eucharist and Biblical texts. The food that appears…